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Great Inventions and Discoveries

by Willis Duff Piercy

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  1. 1Chapter I — Introduction
  2. 2Chapter II — The Printing Press
  3. 3Chapter III — The Steam Engine
  4. 4Chapter IV — Electricity: The Telegraph and the Telephone
  5. 5Chapter V — Electricity: Lighting, Transportation, and Other Uses
  6. 6Chapter VI — The Discovery of America
  7. 7Chapter VII — Weapons and Gunpowder
  8. 8Chapter VIII — Astronomical Discoveries and Inventions
  9. 9Chapter IX — The Cotton-Gin
  10. 10Chapter X — Anæsthetics
  11. 11Chapter XI — Steel and Rubber
  12. 12Chapter XII — Stenography and the Typewriter
  13. 13Chapter XIII — The Friction Match
  14. 14Chapter XIV — Photography
  15. 15Chapter XV — Clocks
  16. 16Chapter XVI — Some Machines
  17. 17Chapter XVII — Aeronautics

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